Word: millions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cast of the play is as follows: James Percival Brown, a recent graduate of Harvard, commonly known as "Jimmy" G. L. Yocum '07 Joshua Phineas Brown, who has just made a "million" F. Taft '07 Knight Byrd, a sport, also an old college chum of Jimmy's J. T. Houghton '08 Wright Moran Moore, reporter for the "Howl" C. N. Eaton '08 Vandeventer Parks, a stock manipulator S. Crowell '09 Selum Short, a broker H. B. Sheahan '09 Francis Parks, daughter of Vandeventer Parks R. D. Murphy '08 Estrella Flushing, hotel clerk and stenographer L. M. Potter '08 Bell-boys...
...things produced on the land. A great element of recent fortunes is town and city property, whether built on or not, and this was almost unknown to the people of the Middle Ages. Land which has been built on in France, has increased in value from three to twelve million dollars in the last 50 years...
...composed them have got some social prestige and popular notoriety, and the undergraduates some lung-exercise and some disappointments. But has this result been worth what it has cost? The money cost alone, as some newspapers estimate it, of the last game is from a quarter to half a million dollars; and if half this sum comes out of Harvard pockets, was the game worth the price of the candle? This is for a single year; but how about the years which have gone to their desolate graves? These are questions that are running through the heads of thousands...
...Four Million," by O. Henry...
...Corporation has just purchased property between Washington street and Hamilton place, including the old Music Hall. The value of this property is fixed at nearly a million dollars...